Spraying helps fight against invasive cacti

The Goldfields, Nullarbor Rangelands Biosecurity Association says it has successfully killed off some outbreaks of invasive cactus in Leonora.

Executive officer Ross Wood says it is important to deal with invasive cactus outbreaks because they spread quickly and are difficult to kill.

In conjunction with the association, St Barbara's mine, which holds the tenant lease for Tarmoola Station in Leonora, has sprayed herbicides on the cacti.

Mr Woods says these plants are extremely invasive and damage the local environment, so more funding is needed to eradicate them.

"We've applied for more funding to do the next stage and luckily the funding bodies are seeing the importance of this pretty much but we need to get everybody on board and to start dealing with this stuff before it becomes too big of a problem," he said.

"So what we've got to do is get around these small outbreaks and try and round them up, so to speak, before they get too big and before anyone can't control them at all.

"But it's very costly to [do] every plant because you've got to spray every plant to ... get it killed."